Webzen have announced the release of the latest expansion for Rappelz, their dark fantasy themed mmorpg.

The latest update introduces a new raid dungeon, a party matching system, class re-balancing, skills available for pets, and continued improvements to the game balance.

Adventurers can put their skills to the test in the new raid dungeon. Available through a quest and a special ticket, players will venture to the Parallel World dungeon in order to stop nefarious monsters from wreaking havoc on Gaia. This dungeon will be populated by phantoms and challenging bosses, which can be defeated to amass rewards in the form of a new set of equipment for players, and new soul creatures to add to their collection.

Finding a party has never been easy than with this update, whether for newcomers looking to explore Rappelz’s dungeons for the first time, or veterans seeking another party member for a tough instance. The party leader can create a party and register it on the party list of the interface with the name, level area, and number of members. If players are interested, they can apply and wait for the leader’s approval to be teamed up with the other members.

The pet owners will enjoy a new addition in Epic IX Part 2, as creatures will now have their own skills depending on their specialty.

Many more improvements are included with a rebalance of the classes, the addition of new quests, enchanting weapons effect modification, and much more.

To celebrate the release of the expansion, the Rappelz Team is organizing several events in-game, including login events and EXP boosts. More information about this expansion is available on the Rappelz official website.

Webzen have announced the release of the latest update for their PvP-focused MMORPG Archlord 2. It’s claiming to be the most challenging to date.

This new update introduces a new dungeon for seasoned adventurers, a world raid boss and new sets of legendary gear.

Evil never sleeps with Galia and his henchmen awakening an ancient monster to unleash hell on Chantra and opening the “Dark Stronghold”, a new dungeon available only in “Hell” difficulty. Only the toughest and most cunning heroes from level 55 onwards can enter this instance. Then hope to take down all the challenging bosses who should put up quite a fight. Vanquishing the enemies in the “Dark Stronghold” will reward the adventurers with exclusive level 60 legendary gear.

In Stardust Land, a new world raid boss has appeared, the most challenging monster that ever walked the realm of Chantra: Stein. Stein won’t be overcome by displays of sheer power; players will have to employ team-work and strategy to slay him. However, should they manage this feat, they will be rewarded with all new level 60 legendary weapons. Heroes should be careful during their raids, as both factions may attack this mighty boss simultaneously.

The content update introduces several new features and upgrades, with the addition of new PvP gear, the possibility to further combine Wings to strengthen players’ stats, bug fixes and more.

Official Archlord website.

Two big additions this week for Call of Combat: the new map Jardin proved to be good enough to release a test version of it, even if there are currently plans to heavily modify it. The reinforcement / respawn mode has been updated with a proper capture and scoring system. It’s more about immediate action than strategy, so it should be a more welcoming mode for new players. Playing the reinforcement mode will earn you promotion points, but it will not affect your efficiency.

Reinforcements game mode?

Here is how the scoring works: Both teams start with a predefined number of points (e.g. 200 points on WW3). Every time one soldier dies, the team loses a point. When the fourth soldier of a player dies, and respawn, its team loses 7 points (so a total of 10 points for wiping out a full player’s squad). When a team owns less victory areas than the other, their points start depleting. The more victory areas the other team captures, the quicker the depletion. For example, in WW3, if a team owns all three victory areas, the other team will lose 2 points every 3 seconds.

More details and updates on the official Call of Combat website.

Compared to a few of the more recent champion updates, Riot has launched Fiora pretty recently. Still, she’s one of them tricksy melee marksmen/fighter types who was supposed to be a fleet-footed fencing duelist, but who, once she had a few items, could just lunge up to the other team’s squishies and smack ‘em for a quick and easy – and unstoppable – kill. That was her single gear, really, and because Fiora was only good at killing, when she didn’t have the damage to do her single job, she couldn’t do much of anything.

Changes were needed, so Riot have added in non-damaging tools to help Fiora and her team, then balanced that out by reducing some of the undodgeable killing power in her kit. She’s still all about outplaying her opponents, but now has the tools she needs to play from behind or help her team out in ways that don’t involve straight up slaughter. Voila, or whatever.

Her new abilities:

Passive: Duelist’s Dance

Fiora identifies the weak spots – or vitals – in the defenses of all enemy champions she comes close to. If she manages to attack her enemy’s weak spot, Fiora deals extra true damage for that attack while gaining a small heal and short boost of speed. Fiora reveals a new weak spot whenever she attacks one, or when a moderate period of time passes without it being attacked.

Q: Lunge

Fiora lunges in a target direction before striking a nearby enemy, dealing damage and applying on-hit effects. Lunge prioritizes enemy champions, and tries to hit enemy weak spots. Finally, some of Lunge’s cooldown is refreshed when the ability strikes an enemy.

W: Riposte

Fiora enters a defensive stance, parrying all damage and hard crowd control abilities for a fraction of a second. After she’s done parrying, Fiora attacks in a target direction, damaging and briefly slowing the first enemy champion she strikes. If she parries any hard crowd control abilities, Riposte stuns instead of slows.

E: Bladework

Fiora gains increased attack speed on her next two basic attacks. The first cannot crit but slows her target, while the second is guaranteed to crit.

R: Grand Challenge

Fiora targets an enemy champion, gaining speed and full knowledge of their vitals. Each time she destroys a weak spot, she deals percent max health true damage. If she’s able to destroy all four weak spots, or if she destroys at least one before her target dies, Fiora creates a large and long-lasting zone under her enemy that heals Fiora and her allied champions.

League of Legends Official Website.

Ant-Man makes a big… well…little – splash as Marvel Heroes 2015’s 49th playable character. He’s released and playable this week so login now to give him a try. The team have released a highlight trailer demonstrating some of Scott Lang’s abilities as Ant Man.

·        Ant Constructs! Scott Lang can summon ants to do his bidding, from small attacks and walls of ants to a full-fledged Antnado!
·        Flying Ants! The best way to get around.
·        “Invisibility”! By turning small, Scott can go unnoticed by enemies around him.
·        The costume inspired by Avengers NOW! is the default and the costume inspired by Marvel’s Ant-Man movie, can be purchased separately.
·        And Hank Pym! A classic Hank Pym costume will be available alongside Scott Lang’s ensembles.

Marvel Heroes website.

Some of gaming’s most compelling player stories have sprung out of the complex machinations of EVE Online’s nullsec sovereignty gameplay, including the devious Guiding Hand Social Club assassination, the staggering Bloodbath of B-R5RB, the near-instant fall of the implacable Band of Brothers Alliance at the hands of a traitor, and many more. These legends are born in the imaginations of the most complex, intricate opponents available—human beings—and are carried out by the strength of the real relationships of EVE pilots around the world as they build their own metaphorical sandcastles and work to knock down those of their enemies.

Yesterday, the final part of EVE’s Aegis release brought with it a fundamental change to how players war over the lawless solar systems beyond the reach of Empire control. Evolution has come to EVE warfare and the ramifications will affect every single one of EVE’s hundreds of thousands of players in the same shared sci-fi universe.

In nullsec space, thousands of solar systems can be claimed by players, their moons harvested for minerals, giant space structures built, local pirates killed for bounties, and more. Previously, warfare contesting ownership of space was relatively static, a sort of protracted siege based around grinding down structures in one location that favored bringing massive ships to bear on enemies and encouraged holding vast swaths of vacant buffer space.

Fueled by the technology introduced by a mysterious new force in EVE known as the Drifters, Aegis’ new Sovereignty system is much more dynamic. It offers more opportunities for small gangs of pilots to make a difference in the attack or defense of a solar system, spreads conflicts across constellations, and encourages the use of space by inhabitants instead of leaving it as a no-man’s land between superpowers.

With this new, multiple-capture-point system, the possibilities for fresh tactics, changes in the ship-fitting metagame, diplomatic shenanigans, and the likely rise of wholly new emergent careers for players are at an all-time high. The battlefields of EVE will likely be littered with exploded ships as players adjust to the tactical demands of a new system. As always, those who fail to adapt in New Eden are likely to either perish outright or accept temporary losses while they bolster their forces or forge new diplomatic ties. Those who evolve their gameplay will reap the benefits during this time of upheaval.

Warcraft is a movie based on the popular video game series and is due for release in 2016. The feature film trailer premiered at this years Comic Con and RaGEZONE has the leaked trailer for all to view.

More than 100 Heroes of the Storm teams will be battling it out in the North America July Open for a chance to secure a $25,000 prize pool and a slot in the American Championship. The action will be taking place live this weekend, July 11–12 at 12:00 p.m. PDT. You can be sure to watch all the action live on the Heroes of the Storm community streams. The Round of 8 will conclude next weekend with broadcasts from the ESL studio on July 18–19.

The winning teams will be transported alongside the greatest Heroes of the Storm players in the world to a new battleground—BlizzCon! Heroes of the Storm will be featured on stage alongside StarCraft II, World of Warcraft, and Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, with the World Championship for all four events taking place at BlizzCon on November 6 – 7 in Anaheim.

The stakes are high, with a total prize pool of over $1.2 million in total cash and prizes—including $500,000 at BlizzCon. The World Champion team will walk away with $200,000—and bragging rights as the best Heroes of the Storm players in the world.

Find out more on the official website.

All World of Tanks players are eligible to take part in the 9.9 Public Test as long as they were registered before June 22nd. You don’t need to be an experienced tester to join in, you just need to be willing to try out as many of the new features as you can, and send in your helpful feedback.

Included in the patch are various fixes to tanks, some graphical tweaks to help with quality of life, such as correcting vehicles that had too little camouflage.

What’s the next step for Domination mode? Can a Tiger be Japanese? Will the graphics improve? What’s happening to the Swamp and Highway maps? Learn about all the changes on the way in the 9.9 update with the new episode of ASAP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuR_hQdB19A

Dirty Bomb just released a new video for Phantom. He brings an entirely new melee weapon to the field: A razor-sharp Katana, ready and waiting to plunge into the back of an unsuspecting medic. It’s slower and more unwieldy to use, but when it finds its target it hits for massive damage, carving foes up into nice little pieces.

Phantom is somewhere around here, but good luck finding him before he strikes! Willing to do anything to get rid of him, his Commanding Officer volunteered Phantom to take part in an experimental Refractive Armor test program. Returning the favor, Phantom promptly stole the suit and used it to plant incriminating evidence/livestock in his former Commanding Officer’s quarters. Since then he has been a legend in his own mind. Never, ever lend him money, or your mobile phone.

Phantom’s pride and joy, his Refractive Armor, is the piece of technology that justifies his code name. He can activate this specialized suit of camouflage and, in only a few moments, fade from sight. The armor’s power will drain for as long as he’s invisible, although while he is moving the power will drain faster, as well as visually disrupting, making him easier to spot when chasing down the enemy.

Of course, this is armor, not some magic cloak! If Phantom is shot while Refractive Armor is enabled, that damage will instead deplete the Armor’s remaining power, giving him enough time to close the gap and take advantage of his shiny new toy.

Get the full patch details and other notes at the official Dirty Bomb website.